The Argentine Football Association (AFA) announced a new format for the 2027 Liga Profesional season, with the first division’s 30 teams now set to face each other off once, but with playoffs still deciding two champions.

Up until the current season, the Argentine top tier saw teams divided into two 15-squad groups, who twice a year played among themselves, with a single intergroup matchday. 

They’d compete for eight spots in the playoff to declare the winners of the Torneo Apertura in the first half of the season and the Torneo Clausura in the second.

Next season will bring changes to the formula, with all 30 teams in a single, round-robin system. The best team at the........

© Buenos Aires Herald